I think most of them are true believers, Marla. Can you imagine how many hours of human labor have gone/will go into this ridiculous gambit? Multiply by a million, and you some idea of the scale of the waste in this system.

Selling crap alone is bad, but what hurts more is when you see the evil begin to “do good.” The conflation of good and evil is sophisticated enough that it makes it all the more difficult for people to perceive that there was any evil to begin with.